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magnet; me person of Mile. Sturman from head to foot, she became 

 insensible and was attacked by spasms, generally rigid. When i 

 performed many passes with my large rock crystal, the result was 

 the same. But I could also produce the same effect by using, 

 instead of the magnet or the crystal, my hands alone. The peculiar 

 force (we shall call it crystalline) found both in magnets and crystals 

 must therefore also reside in my hands. 



" 'In order to test this more fully I tried the experiments 

 which I shall presently describe. If this were the case, the force 

 residing in my hand must produce all those effects which the crys- 

 talline force is capable of producing, as described in the preceding 

 treatise; I could conclude as to difference of similarity, according 

 to the degree of resemblance in the properties observed. It was 

 first of all necessary to ascertain whether there existed a coincidence 

 and to what extent, between the action of the crystals on the healthy 

 or diseased sensitive nerve and that of the human hand on the same 

 re-agent. When in the case of persons sufficiently sensitive to per- 

 ceive distinctly the passes made with a large crystal along the inner 

 surface of/ the hand, I drew along the left hands of the patients the 

 points of the fingers of my right hand, turned laterally, so that one 

 finger followed the other and all passed over the same line, which 

 was drawn from the wrist down to beyond the point of the middle 

 finger, there was not one among them who did not perceive the 

 effect exactly as from the point of a crystal. It was generally 

 described as a cool aura, more rarely as a tepid aura; and was not 

 only as powerful but usually considerably more powerful than a 

 crystal. 



" 'I need not here speak of the diseased subjects, since all of 

 those I have hitherto mentioned perceived the effect with the same 

 singular distinctness with which they felt as a general rule every 

 magnetic pass; and Miles. Maix and Nowotney were even able to 

 distinguish the effect of each finger separately. But there were 

 but few healthy persons who were quite sufficiently sensitive for 

 this re-action. Indeed, some of these who only felt indistinctly the 

 action of the crystals perceived that of the fingers, used as above 

 described, so plainly that they could always point it out while the 

 eyes were averted. I am permitted here to refer to my friend, M. 

 Carl Shuh, who is a strong healthy man and perceives the action of 

 crystals with unusual distinctness. When, to make assurance 

 doubly sure and contrary to my own rule, I blindfolded him and 

 made slow passes w r ith the fingers of my right hand, as before 

 described, over his left hand, he experienced so strong and distinct 

 a sensation, analogous to that produced by a crystal, that he could 

 distinguish each individual pass and was able, for example, at all 

 times exactly to tell when I had made exactly two-thirds of the 

 whole pass. M. Studer, already mentioned, also perceived this 

 quite as plainly, as well as numerous other persons, among whom 1 

 have permission to name one of the finest, most powerful, and 



